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Monday, May 23, 2011

Legendary Air Force Thunderbirds Give Camelina Jet Biofuel a Workout - Clean Technica | It’s showtime for camelina, a modest, weedy little plant that has started to make a big splash in the biofuel world. The U.S. Air Force took camelina under its wing a couple of years ago and tested it out on the A-10C Thunderbolt II, and it must have done pretty well because for the first time ever a camelina based jet fuel has been used by the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s official aerial demonstration team...Atwater air museum holds open cockpit day (California) - ModBee | Castle Air Museum will hold its annual Open Cockpit Day on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Castle Air Force Base in Atwater. The event will include food, helicopter rides, restored aircraft and other activities. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $30 for a family of four, and $5 for children 6-17. Children 5 and younger and active duty military personnel with identification are admitted free.

Grosseto, arrows Tricolore A real show in the Gulf - La Nazione | A ground commander Mark Lant, Tricolour Arrows in the sky. Yesterday, the Italian Air Force aerobatic team has enchanted audiences Follonica coloring the sky in the Gulf. All over the heads of tens of thousands of people who were discharged early in the morning on the waterfront: the first digit (official) spoken by at least 40 thousand visitors...Flying Dreams Could Become A Reality At The Cosford Air Show - Shropshire Live | The dream of joining one of the UK’s top aerobatic display teams as they complete thrilling close formation moves could become a reality for fundraisers in the Midlands. The Blades will show off their skills in the skies above RAF Cosford at the annual air show on June 12 – but the crowds at the event now have the chance to experience it for themselves. Now in their sixth consecutive display season, The Blades are made up of four Extra 300 stunt planes flown in an array of intricate manoeuvres...

Congress honors Antarctic explorers, May 23, 1930 - Politico | On this day in 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed legislation awarding congressional gold, silver and bronze medals to members of an Antarctic expedition led by Rear Adm. Richard Byrd. On Nov. 28, 1929, Byrd, a pioneering aviator and polar explorer, led the first expedition to fly over the South Pole...

National Wings of Freedom Tour - CBS | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Three planes with a long history of service in the United States military made a stop south of San Francisco as part of the National Wings of Freedom tour, a traveling aviation museum honoring World War II veterans and providing a living history experience to attendees... (Great picture gallery)

Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force: Top 10 Reasons to visit the Museum on June 11th - NASM Blog | How do the National Air and Space Museum and the Civil War intersect? Come find out as we tell the story of the Union Balloon Corps founded in June 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln. 150 years ago next month Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated ballooning to President Lincoln on a spot just north from where the Museum now stands on the National Mall...

Hurricane Walkaround - Air & Space | During his 38-year career with the Royal Air Force, Ron Dick flew 60 aircraft types and accumulated more than 5,000 flight hours. A contributing editor of Air & Space/Smithsonian, he now lectures and writes about aviation history. In December, Dick met with the magazine's editors at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, where he gave an engaging lecture about the Hawker Hurricane on display there...

Movie Monday - May 23 - Lockheed's 56 year old C-130 - FlightBlogger | This week's Movie Monday is another trip into the vault for classic aircraft development footage. This declassified 1955 report on the original Lockheed C-130 Hercules runs 13min - a bit shorter than usual MMs - but the level of detail provided in the report is really extensive. The C-130 airframe has been upgraded and adapted to so many different missions over the years that the 1955 C-130 bears little to no 'under the skin' resemblance to the C-130J of today...

Caption Contest #58 - Ends Wednesday 5.25.11 At 9PM EDT - Martt | Ahh, the hang glider craze of the 70's... now those were the days. No pesky FAA intervention, and apparently no fear of death! Oh well, if these guys were gonna do this, at least someone was smart enough to get a picture of it so we could have a great Caption Contest 30+ years later...

Artist scoops first prize in Lincolnshire aircraft competition - Lincolnshire | A YOUNG artist has won a competition to design aircraft nose art. Heidi Weightman, 20, was given first prize for her age category in the county-wide competition. But the winning design is being kept top secret until the official unveiling at Newark Air Museum for its annual Cockpit Festival...

A Week in the Philippines - Gyrox Goes Global | Following Norman’s arrival a week ago at Woodland Air Park in the Philippines, people may have been wondering what he has been up to. Obviously, because of the long gap since the circumnavigation was put on hold last year, Norman has been extremely busy with updating flight plans and attaining new permits for flying to modified destinations...

Image of the Day Gallery - NASA | Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 22, 2011. He and fellow spacewalker Mike Fincke completed this, the second of the four STS-134 spacewalks, for a mission total of 14 hours 26 minutes...